The New York Journey Series
The New York Journey Series is five stories based in Upstate New York, with a few trips to other locales such as New York City, Kansas City, Central Oklahoma, and Northern California. Throughout the series, you will find horses, dogs, strong and complex women, and the men who love them. There is intrigue, heartbreak, and happily ever-afters. Each title is completely standalone but you will enjoy them more if you start with Book One, A Fragmented Journey.
Book One
IT specialist Kara Maloney-Elliot returns from an Atlanta trade show to an empty home in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. When the State Troopers find her contractor husband trussed in leather, the apparent victim of auto-eroticism gone bad, in a cabin 50 miles away, questions surface about his past and the owner of the swing he is hanging in.
Kara’s heart-wrenching and lonely journey through this unfamiliar environment is softened by new relationships with fellow computer “geek” Mark Shelton and BCI Sergeant John Harley. Mark’s devilish smile leads Kara to break all rules of etiquette when she should be mourning her late husband; John’s friendship helps her to focus on what she really wants to do with her future.
After rebuilding her life, Kara’s faith in humanity is pushed to the limits when she’s asked by John Harley to join a Search and Rescue team with her German Shepherds. The missing person: the woman with the S & M trapeze in the Adirondacks that took her late husband’s life.
Kara’s heart-wrenching and lonely journey through this unfamiliar environment is softened by new relationships with fellow computer “geek” Mark Shelton and BCI Sergeant John Harley. Mark’s devilish smile leads Kara to break all rules of etiquette when she should be mourning her late husband; John’s friendship helps her to focus on what she really wants to do with her future.
After rebuilding her life, Kara’s faith in humanity is pushed to the limits when she’s asked by John Harley to join a Search and Rescue team with her German Shepherds. The missing person: the woman with the S & M trapeze in the Adirondacks that took her late husband’s life.
Book Two
Michael Corbin is a dedicated family man - so much so that he’s agreed to carry the mantle of responsibility of his parents’ property and business, Columbia Timber and Construction. But two months in, Michael is sucker punched when his wife leaves him for another woman.
Then one night while eating dinner alone in an Irish bar in Albany, he finally gets the chance to chat up a stunning red-head he’d met a few months before, unwittingly opening his heart to the woman who will save him and his world, marketing maven Aisling Bailey.
When money gets tight during a building dry-spell, Aisling convinces Michael to open the pristine 800 acres of Columbia Timber to primitive camping. With a new generation of outdoor enthusiasts who believe in honoring Mother Earth and the proximity to metro-New York City, the idea could prove to be a winning combination to save the Corbin homestead. But their idea to share the mountain with others is in jeopardy when a clearing crew member gets lost and they need to call in a Search and Rescue team. And worse yet, their developing love for each other is threatened by the stress of it all.
Then one night while eating dinner alone in an Irish bar in Albany, he finally gets the chance to chat up a stunning red-head he’d met a few months before, unwittingly opening his heart to the woman who will save him and his world, marketing maven Aisling Bailey.
When money gets tight during a building dry-spell, Aisling convinces Michael to open the pristine 800 acres of Columbia Timber to primitive camping. With a new generation of outdoor enthusiasts who believe in honoring Mother Earth and the proximity to metro-New York City, the idea could prove to be a winning combination to save the Corbin homestead. But their idea to share the mountain with others is in jeopardy when a clearing crew member gets lost and they need to call in a Search and Rescue team. And worse yet, their developing love for each other is threatened by the stress of it all.
Book Three
Luke Taylor has grown weary of finding dead bodies. As a twenty-year veteran of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations for the New York State Troopers, he feels like he’s seen it all. Maybe it’s time to retire and move him and his son out of his beloved Adirondack Mountains. Luke decides that a road trip will do them both some good.
Making their way south to explore the Carolinas, they stop for a side journey and late lunch at a diner in the fabled town of Woodstock, when Luke’s ever-present cell phone starts vibrating on his belt. Reluctant to take the call from his office, his professional guilt kicks in. Freak, will I ever get away? But his attitude changes quickly when he finds out that a six-year-old child is missing from a primitive campsite in Northern Columbia County, less than 60 miles north-east of where he was sitting.
On the way to Valatie, Luke calls his friend, and renown Search and Rescue tracker, Kara Maloney. Not only was the search area practically in her backyard, but there was no one better to help find this child than her. Then Luke’s plans to move south get put on ice when he reconnects with Kara’s friend, Robin Singer, a quick-witted woman with ginger-blonde curls that tease him with every giggle. Not to mention her corn flower blue eyes that he gets blissfully lost in while wondering what her delicate lips will feel like.
Widowed five years before she meets the handsome trooper working with her friend, Robin grapples to resist the quick smile that softens his ruggedly chiseled features. With hazel eyes, close cropped blonde hair, and a derriere that wonderfully filled his tight jeans, this cop looked more like a mid-west cowboy than a northern New York woodsman. Robin lets her fantasies play in her head but, ultimately must make a choice based upon what is best for her two young sons, a struggle that Luke is also intimately familiar with.
Making their way south to explore the Carolinas, they stop for a side journey and late lunch at a diner in the fabled town of Woodstock, when Luke’s ever-present cell phone starts vibrating on his belt. Reluctant to take the call from his office, his professional guilt kicks in. Freak, will I ever get away? But his attitude changes quickly when he finds out that a six-year-old child is missing from a primitive campsite in Northern Columbia County, less than 60 miles north-east of where he was sitting.
On the way to Valatie, Luke calls his friend, and renown Search and Rescue tracker, Kara Maloney. Not only was the search area practically in her backyard, but there was no one better to help find this child than her. Then Luke’s plans to move south get put on ice when he reconnects with Kara’s friend, Robin Singer, a quick-witted woman with ginger-blonde curls that tease him with every giggle. Not to mention her corn flower blue eyes that he gets blissfully lost in while wondering what her delicate lips will feel like.
Widowed five years before she meets the handsome trooper working with her friend, Robin grapples to resist the quick smile that softens his ruggedly chiseled features. With hazel eyes, close cropped blonde hair, and a derriere that wonderfully filled his tight jeans, this cop looked more like a mid-west cowboy than a northern New York woodsman. Robin lets her fantasies play in her head but, ultimately must make a choice based upon what is best for her two young sons, a struggle that Luke is also intimately familiar with.
Book Four
Mark Shelton stared at the text message he’d received: Call me when u can. Kara. The beautiful red head who cast him aside two years ago for someone closer to home.
Yep, he’d called her. And, a month later, he was moving over a thousand miles northeast of Oklahoma for a new IT job and a dramatic change in scenery. In the midst of the snow and mountains of New York State, Mark finds out that life has a funny way of presenting you with a miracle when you’re looking in the wrong direction.
Ups and downs have been a part of life for Laurie Billings, especially since the day her husband left to set up house with his assistant. Faced with losing the stable she’d built from scratch, Laurie forces herself out of her comfort zone and into the world of computer programming to boost her income by several needed figures.
While developing an app to aid Search and Rescue teams, Laurie finally meets the man her friend Kara has always referred to as “the cowboy.” With his dark hair, long legs and intoxicating accent tugging at her heartstrings, Laurie fights her own insecurities about trusting again.
Yep, he’d called her. And, a month later, he was moving over a thousand miles northeast of Oklahoma for a new IT job and a dramatic change in scenery. In the midst of the snow and mountains of New York State, Mark finds out that life has a funny way of presenting you with a miracle when you’re looking in the wrong direction.
Ups and downs have been a part of life for Laurie Billings, especially since the day her husband left to set up house with his assistant. Faced with losing the stable she’d built from scratch, Laurie forces herself out of her comfort zone and into the world of computer programming to boost her income by several needed figures.
While developing an app to aid Search and Rescue teams, Laurie finally meets the man her friend Kara has always referred to as “the cowboy.” With his dark hair, long legs and intoxicating accent tugging at her heartstrings, Laurie fights her own insecurities about trusting again.
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Book Five
When Lainey Corbin was a child growing up in the mid-west, she learned that those who loved her also left her. So, when she bolted from her own marriage, it didn’t matter how many people were hurt. But that was a younger Lainey. The woman of today finally recognized the value of a solid relationship and the virtues of small-town life and she was going back to make things right with her ex-husband’s family, and she knows they won’t be happy to see her.
Jason Daley has spent years working with large equipment – first as an operator, now as an owner of an equipment rental business. He has loved living in the same rural town in upstate New York his entire life. For some people that might seem boring, but it suited him just fine, except for one thing – he had no social life. Most of the local women had been snatched up just out of high school. And as a business owner who started each day before sunrise, Albany was too far away for night-time socializing.
Then one day he holds the door at Angie’s Deli for a stunning blonde who seems vaguely familiar. Mesmerized by her slight mid-Western accent, he vows to find out more about her and convince her to stay in his hometown.
Jason Daley has spent years working with large equipment – first as an operator, now as an owner of an equipment rental business. He has loved living in the same rural town in upstate New York his entire life. For some people that might seem boring, but it suited him just fine, except for one thing – he had no social life. Most of the local women had been snatched up just out of high school. And as a business owner who started each day before sunrise, Albany was too far away for night-time socializing.
Then one day he holds the door at Angie’s Deli for a stunning blonde who seems vaguely familiar. Mesmerized by her slight mid-Western accent, he vows to find out more about her and convince her to stay in his hometown.
